Autogenesis

autogenesis

Autogenesis

the idealistic doctrine that strives to explain the evolution of organisms as resulting from the action of inherent factors alone. Elements of autogenesis were present in the theory of J. B. Lamarck. The idea of autogenesis was elaborated more consistently by the zoologists K. Baer, A. Kölliker, and L. S. Berg, the botanists K. Nägeli and S. I. Korzhinskii, the paleontologist E. Cope, and the ǵeneticists H. de Vries and Iu. A. Filipchenko. The conjectured inherent factor of development is sometimes called the “principle of perfection” (Nägeli) and sometimes the “force of growth,” or “bath-mism” (Cope). Autogenesis opposed the materialistic theory of evolution which is based on natural selection. C. Darwin, A. Weismann, K. A. Timiriazev, A. N. Severtsov, and other Darwinist biologists have made valid criticisms of autogenesis.

Although Welty barely mentions Light in August in her cautiously respectful reviews of her fellow Mississippian's work, or in any of her comments on Faulkner in her many published interviews, one is tempted to read her William Wallace as a direct descendent of Byron Bunch, for Byron anticipates not only Welty's characteristic comic register but also her effort to use comedy to refigure the misogynistic and doomed masculinity--centered, in Faulkner as in Hemingway, on male fantasies of autogenesis dependent on pathologized constructions of the female body--explored so exhaustively by the male modernists.

The second type of pathology (including type 21 and 22) that can occur is when autogenesis is blocked, so that normative coherence cannot develop within the cultural fabric of the plural actor, in part because learning is not possible.

The recognition of these fundamental features makes it difficult to apply here the concept of climax, considered traditionally as the presumed result of autogenesis within a stable physical environment.

When all of the political parties as well as the dominant "coalition" labor union have become national institutions and when the political expression of opposition parties has been stifled, the question arises regarding the level at which the autogenesis of a new, popular political culture created at the hands of citizens will constitute a counter force to the reigning "theater state" orientation.

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